On Sep 20, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Ollie Saunders wrote:

Besides, aliases are basic and long standing feature of OS X so it’s surprising that they aren’t supported.

They’re a feature of MacOS (9 and older), not OS X. They don’t exist in any meaningful way outside Finder, which I’m guessing is why they don’t work the way you want in TextMate.

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